Evil Is As Evil Is, But What Is Evil?

[stickbook41 <stix4141@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51663

Abigail wrote: 
> My own personal view of Draco has for a long time been that he's 
the Potterverse equivalent of A.J. Soprano...<

What a fantastic analogy!  I have to agree with you there.  Draco 
obviously wants so much to be the badass Lucius is, to please his 
father if nothing else.  But I have to once again re-iterate the fact 
that there's a not-so-thin line between bullying and murder.  The big 
question being whether or not Draco can/will cross it when the time 
comes.

Because Draco is such an unlikable character, I personally would like 
nothing more to see him fail at his (seemingly) only ambition, in 
which case he would make a lousy Death Eater because he can't cross 
the line.

Does a situation like this qualify as redemption?  I don't think so.  
For Draco, the worst possible outcome is that he is seen as a failure 
in the eyes of his father, whom he idolizes.  No less than Draco 
deserves, IMHO.

What is the likelyhood that this scenario will play out?  Not a 
definite, but a distinct possibility, and here's why: Draco is a 
spoiled-rotten child.  I can't imagine that Lucius was coddled in his 
youth the way he coddles Draco.  As a result, Lucius comes away with 
a much thicker skin, and Draco knows of no other method of exerting 
power than tantrum-throwing.

-stickbook